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Mini-Show Succulent February 2021: Crassula

The varied genus Crassula contains around 200 species and many cultivars.

Four genera that are all now Eriosyce, from Chile and Peru.

Mammillaria is one of the larger genera in the Cactus family, and one of the most variable, but only some have hooked spines.

Caudiciform plants, also known as ‘Fat Plants’, are a grouping of many totally unrelated plants all having a fat, short, swollen stem-trunk.

Crest and monstose are mutations of the cellular structure.

Crest and monstose are mutations of the cellular structure.

A genus of cacti from the dry coastal deserts, particularly the Atacama Desert, of northern Chile.

These 3 genera produce rosettes with thick leaves. Graptopetalum is native to Mexico and Arizona. Graptoveria and Pachyveria are nursery hybrids.

These 2 caudiciform genera, are unrelated except that they are both from Africa and Southeast Asia and are named after the country Aden.